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This book investigates the construction of social reality in the relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico over the past 100 years.

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• Preface(p. xi)
• Acknowledgments(p. xv)
• Introduction(p. 3)
• Part I Essential History(p. 25)
• Chapter 1 The U.S. Expansionist Drive(p. 27)
• Chapter 2 Puerto Rico Before 1898(p. 45)
• Chapter 3 Puerto Rico Under the American Regime(p. 55)
• Part II The Judicial Construction of Colonialism(p. 71)
• Chapter 4 The Legal Doctrine of the Insular Cases(p. 73)
• Chapter 5 The Legal Theory and Ideology of the Insular Cases(p. 101)
• Chapter 6 The Constitutive Effects of the Insular Cases(p. 121)
• Part III The Production of Hegemony in Puerto Rican Society(p. 143)
• Chapter 7 Hegemony Through Citizenship(p. 145)
• Chapter 8 Hegemony Through Legal Consciousness: Rights, Partial Democracy, and the Rule of Law(p. 191)
• Conclusion(p. 239)
• References(p. 249)
• Table of Authority(p. 261)
• Index(p. 265)
• About the Author(p. 275)

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Efren Rivera Ramos, PhD, JD, is a full professor at the University of Puerto Rico School of Law. He currently teaches courses on jurisprudence, sociology of law, the legal profession, law and social change, and evidence. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, he obtained a BA in political science and a JD from the University of Puerto Rico, an LLM at Harvard Law School, and a PhD in law and social theory from the University of London. He has worked as a professional journalist, is a published poet, has practiced and taught law for over 20 years, and has lectured on a wide variety of topics in Puerto Rico, the United States, Europe, and Latin America